Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...precept and example, "Senator" Young has long since built up within the White House walls a model political organization of which he is the model boss. The White House Correspondents' Association, set up to control the personnel of press conferences, has become under the Boss's rule a powerful dining-out group, whose banquets are often louder & funnier than the Gridiron Club...
...organization of its economic front Germany so far has a big advantage. She was on a war basis two years ago, partially rationed, regimented, ruled literally from soup to nuts by Four-Year Planner Göring. The Allies' organization has rolled along, too-shadow factories, contraband control, women's industrial mobilization-but not without the grinding of many a gear. With 1,200,000 men in the army, with armament factories booming, Britain still has unemployment. Thus the major question of War II at the half-year mark remained not so much which economy could take...
...Army knows better. It much prefers to cultivate the Badlands as: 1) a source of needed revenue; 2) a point of pressure on the International Settlement. For over a year the policing of Shanghai, both inside and outside the Settlement, has caused a two-way controversy. The Japanese want control of Settlement patrols (which would be the next thing to getting control of the Settlement) and the Settlement's Municipal Council wants to help keep order in outlying areas. Last week the Municipal Council won a slight concession. An agreement was signed permitting Settlement police to "help" patrol part...
...powers came by narrower squeaks. Ben Cohen's Holding Company Act (after a stormy fight over its famed "death sentence," Section 11) passed the Senate by only one vote. A drastic remedy for bugs like Foshay, plagues like Insull, it aimed to reform the power industry, shift its control from Wall Street back to local managements. But the need for an SEC has never been seriously questioned, was recognized in the Republican platform of 1936. Its powers are really derived from the vast fear and suspicion of Wall Street that exists west of the Hudson. Established, effective, cocksure...
...Senior Hugh Dryfoos of Manhattan in his room in Russell Sage Dormitory. Its audience: 40 other students in Russell Sage whose rooms are within WHD's broadcasting range-50 to 75 feet. WHD's transmitter: a one-tube gadget like those used in remote-control record players (and permitted license-free...